This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream
media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously
biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in
each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Source: The Week
Apr 16, 2020
Trailblazing aviator Harriet Quimby has never received the level of recognition she deserves in the American pantheon, despite her extraordinary life.
Source: The Guardian
Apr 16, 2020
Protests against stay-at-home coronavirus rules have gained support from rightwing politicians and media groups in recent days, setting up a battle with scientists and public health leaders who say restrictions are necessary.
Source: The Hill
Apr 15, 2020
But the clarity of the law, as experts like Claire Finkelstein of the Center for Ethics and Rule of Law see it, does not necessarily stop the president from taking action as part of a political strategy.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 15, 2020
Ms. Goodacre's Vietnam Women’s Memorial, a 6-foot-8 bronze sculpture of three uniformed women and a wounded serviceman, honors the roughly 265,000 military women of the Vietnam era, about 10,000 of whom served in Vietnam itself.
Source: Crosscut
Apr 15, 2020
The impulse to separate and redefine the region is as old as the Euro-American settlement of the Northwest, and has roots in so-called “rural values” and racial exclusion that date back to before, during and after the Civil War.
Source: Inside Higher Ed
Apr 15, 2020
James Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association, noted that older academics are both the bridges and the glue of not just institutions, but all sorts of identification that people have, and can hold an institution and people together.
Source: Harvard Crimson
Apr 15, 2020
Posts falsely claiming that a Harvard professor was arrested for creating and selling the novel coronavirus have been shared more than 79,000 times on Facebook as of April 7, according to Reuters.
Source: Smithsonian
Apr 15, 2020
In the new miniseries, feminist history, dramatic storytelling and an all-star-cast bring the Equal Rights Amendment back into the spotlight.
Source: The Hill
Apr 14, 2020
The 2018 midterms and 2020 primaries showed just how critical the turnout of women—Democrat, independent and moderate Republican will be this November.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 14, 2020
There’s no mistaking that “Mrs. America” is Schlafly’s show, giving her everything she lacked as a media caricature: shape, complexity and even some empathy for her personal struggles and her own experiences (whether she acknowledges them or not) of being discriminated against as a woman.
Source: Huffington Post
Apr 14, 2020
The war metaphor is not only inapt to apply to a viral pandemic, it is dangerous.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 14, 2020
“You won’t find that written in the Federalist Papers anywhere,” Robert Chesney, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin, told The Washington Post.
Source: MassLive
Apr 14, 2020
The airport added, “Doing this to an aircraft is the equivalent to pushing down a World War II veteran just to watch him fall.”
Source: WNPR
Apr 14, 2020
More than 40 descendants of Louis Agassiz support Tamara Lanier’s efforts and have written an open letter to Harvard asking the university to relinquish the photos.
Source: History.com
Apr 13, 2020
From shouting candidates' names, to hanging chads to electronic scanning, the nature of voting has a long, sometimes bumpy history in the United States.
Source: The Atlantic
Apr 13, 2020
If Joe Biden wins the election in November, he will likely be sworn in—perhaps virtually—under the most challenging circumstances since Harry Truman became president in 1945.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Apr 13, 2020
How did a son of Republicans Ronald and Nancy Reagan become an “unabashed atheist”? And how did the parents take that?
Source: IndieWire
Apr 13, 2020
Credited with bringing Gospel music to the mainstream, the five Clark sisters overcame humble beginnings in Detroit to achieve international fame as icons of the Gospel music industry.
Source: Washington Post
Apr 13, 2020
The outside effort from conservative groups is expected to be led by Stephen Moore, a conservative at the Heritage Foundation who is close with White House economic officials.
Source: CNN
Apr 13, 2020
In January, a fire tore through an historic building in the heart of Manhattan's Chinatown, threatening to engulf decades of artifacts documenting Chinese life in the US.
